Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

BAD GRACES By Kyrie McCauley

Short and Sweet Review Liv hasn’t had the easiest life she and her sister have been through 13 foster homes and she knows her sister has animosity towards her. Liv decides to change where her life is going and she steals her sisters identity. Using her sisters grades and record, Liv wins an internship on […]

UNDER THIS RED ROCK By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review Neely has monsters and they don’t always follow her rules. There’s a history of mental illness in her family and she recently lost her older brother Lance to suicide. Neely decides to get a first job where her monsters won’t follow her, so she becomes a tour guide at the caverns. […]

MURDER ON A SCHOOL NIGHT By Kate Weston

Short and Sweet Review Kerry and her best friend Annie have different ideas about going to their first high school party. Kerry wants to stay home but Annie is determined to go and have a good time. At the party the girls find out that Heather one of the popular girls is being cyber bullied […]

ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN By Kyrie McCauley

Short and Sweet Review After the passing of her mother, Marin is now alone in the world. When Marin gets a surprise invitation from Alice Lovelace, an old friend of her mother’s to come and nanny for her over the summer she accepts. Thea and Wren are a bit strange, Thea likes to bury her […]

MY FLAWLESS LIFE By Yvonne Woon

Short and Sweet Review When students at Hana’s elite private school in Washington D.C need a problem to go away they hire her, she’s a fixer. She can fix most of her classmates problems, the one thing she’s having trouble fixing is her own life. After her Senator father was arrested for an accident that […]

A LONG STRETCH OF BAD DAYS By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review Lydia Cass has worked hard her whole life to be able to get into a prestigious journalism program and leave her small town of Henley behind, but that plan comes to a halt when an error at the school leaves Lydia one credit short of graduating. The school offers Lydia a […]

ALLEGEDLY By Tiffany D. Jackson

Short and Sweet Review Mary B Addison killed a baby, allegedly. No one really knows what happened that night except for Mary and her mother, Mary didn’t say much to the detectives but she did end up taking the fall for baby Alyssa’s death. Now Mary is 15 and living in a group home, she […]

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review Alex Craft is known as the girl who has a dead older sister. Alex’s sister Anna was murdered and the killer walk free and that’s when Alex learned how to kill somebody and she doesn’t feel bad about knowing this. Alex’s crime has gone unpunished but she knows she can’t be […]

NINE LIARS By Maureen Johnson

Short and Sweet Review It’s senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie and its not going well, she needs to start thinking about colleges but she’d rather not. So when her boyfriend in David who is currently in London invites Stevie and her friends to London it’s a welcome distraction. In London David introduces Stevie […]